years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes …We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per …

which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated … among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above …

experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …

This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal … preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment … impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

We investigate whether the field of study influences university students' political attitudes. To disentangle self …-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with … their political attitudes. In a second step we explore how the political attitudes change as the students progress in their …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …

To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and … follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program … structure, and they receive reminders each semester. This easily implementable, low-cost intervention is highly effective: it …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … of the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM …